During his visit he became co-founder of The Irish National Theatre, which later became The Abbey Theatre, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and W. Not long after his first visit to the Aran Islands in 1898 he went to stay with Lady Gregory at her home, Coole Park. These shaped his book The Aran Islands, written in 1901 and his play Shadow of The Glen, completed in 1902. While there, he recorded stories and reported on most aspects of life on the Aran Islands. Taking heed of Yeats’ advice, and with a need to distance himself from his own family’s values, Synge arrived on the Aran Islands in 1898 to find a pure and untainted ‘Irish’ people. Express a life that never found expression.’ Yeats singled out the Aran Islands to Synge as they were considered to have an authentic ‘Irish’ culture with an uncorrupted heart and spiritual values.
Live there as if you’re one of the people themselves. He suggested that Synge ‘give up Paris … go to the Aran Islands. Ibsen became the founding father of ‘The Theatre of Realism’ – the idea of bringing real life to performance – and strongly influenced Synge. One of the leading figures of modernity was the controversial playwright Henrik Ibsen, who examined the realities behind facades. This came to prominence in the late 19th century and early 20th century which aimed to separate the arts from their classical and traditional forms. While in Paris he became exposed to European theatre, which included new philosophical movement of modernism. In 1895 he moved to Paris to enrol at the Sorbonne University with the intention of becoming a critic of French literature. In 1893 he went to Germany to study music, but while there he decided to study language instead. However, Synge grew up to reject his religious roots, as well as the bigotry and ascendancy attitudes of his class, instead devoting himself to art.Įducated largely by private tutors due to ill health, he went on to study at Trinity College Dublin and The Royal Acadamy of Music. His fiercely Protestant family had produced no less than five bishops since settling in Ireland in the 17th century. He was part of the Ascendancy, meaning he was Anglo-Irish and a Protestant.
J.M Synge was born on 16 April 1871 in Rathfarnham, near Dublin. However, while Lady Gregory generally wrote comedies about peasants that had political undertones, Synge illustrated the harsh living conditions of the Irish on the Aran Islands and the Western Irish seaboard. Like Lady Gregory, Synge was also a dramatist portraying the Irish on stage as a means of reviving interest in Irish heritage and Irish cultural nationalism. John Millington Synge was one the leading figures of the Irish Literary Revival towards the end of the 19th century and the early 20th century.
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